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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aviat Inc A-1
N345HU is an Aviat Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Skydotcom LLC, an LLC in Inver Grove Height, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 1, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aviat Inc A-1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1312
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2A · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A3D0A3 (octal 50750243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 1, 2024
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00935911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skydotcom LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6450 Coryell Ct
Inver Grove Height, MN 55076
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N345HU links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Inc A-1 88 registered
- Aviat Inc 171 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-D2A 72 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Skydotcom LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Inver Grove Height, MN 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,946 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-D2A 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-D2A 67 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N345HU.json.
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The public federal record on N345HU, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Skydotcom LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 29, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 2024, 28 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N345HU was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 (serial 1337, cancelled July 1, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
2 NTSB records under N345HU: Accident on February 27, 2025 at Heber City, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 6, 1999 at Emmett, ID: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat INC A-1 · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing, which resulted in a collision with a snowbank.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat A-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during a low-altitude maneuver to view a coyote on the ground. A related factor was the pilot's low altitude.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data